The article of the Small Claims Court was an article that dissected what television shows like Judge Judy does to the general public and beyond. This article focused on juries that were in
Manhattan, the District of Columbia and Hackensack, New Jersey. However, it would have been interesting for the article to have polled other cities that were not in the northeast of the United
States.
I believe that if they would had used more different regions in the study, it could have been more complete and perhaps different, given that the study could have found more detailed, thorough findings. The reason it may be different in other regions in the United States is, since some other people may not have watched shows like Judge Judy or they …show more content…
Something that could be added to this argument is that every state has different court rules, laws and their court systems (civil and criminal) are different as well. We can see an example that the article makes about California’s court systems and we can compare them to other state’s court systems. We see in one of the articles that it talks about
California enacting major revisions to their small claims courts. The statute’s purpose was to expedite minor civil cases in the most just and inexpensive manner. If we compare Texas with
California, the maximum one can sue for damages in small claims courts in Texas is $10,000, but in California it is $5,000. There can be advantages and disadvantages to having a maximum of $5,000 in the state’s small claims courts. Some advantages to the $5,000 maximum in the small claims courts are that it can limit the cases that are heard thus, causing more efficiency in the small claim courts. Other advantages that follow are that by these efficiencies, cases could be heard sooner and can make the general public not think so badly of the real court systems. A disadvantage to the $5,000 maximum is that people have more restrictions in what they can file in small claim courts for
Manhattan, the District of Columbia and Hackensack, New Jersey. However, it would have been interesting for the article to have polled other cities that were not in the northeast of the United
States.
I believe that if they would had used more different regions in the study, it could have been more complete and perhaps different, given that the study could have found more detailed, thorough findings. The reason it may be different in other regions in the United States is, since some other people may not have watched shows like Judge Judy or they …show more content…
Something that could be added to this argument is that every state has different court rules, laws and their court systems (civil and criminal) are different as well. We can see an example that the article makes about California’s court systems and we can compare them to other state’s court systems. We see in one of the articles that it talks about
California enacting major revisions to their small claims courts. The statute’s purpose was to expedite minor civil cases in the most just and inexpensive manner. If we compare Texas with
California, the maximum one can sue for damages in small claims courts in Texas is $10,000, but in California it is $5,000. There can be advantages and disadvantages to having a maximum of $5,000 in the state’s small claims courts. Some advantages to the $5,000 maximum in the small claims courts are that it can limit the cases that are heard thus, causing more efficiency in the small claim courts. Other advantages that follow are that by these efficiencies, cases could be heard sooner and can make the general public not think so badly of the real court systems. A disadvantage to the $5,000 maximum is that people have more restrictions in what they can file in small claim courts for